Movies like King Kong vs. Godzilla

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King Kong vs. Godzilla (1963)
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King Kong vs. Godzilla (1963)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: After a 7 year hiatus, Godzilla returned to the screen to take on King Kong in the 3rd film in the Godzilla franchise. A pharmaceutical company captures King Kong and brings him to Japan, where he escapes from captivity and battles a recently revived Godzilla.
Style: cult classic, daikaiju, grindhouse, psychotronic, retro, suspense, classic horror, natural horror, scary, serious ...
Plot: king kong, godzilla, monster, kaiju, giant monster, dinosaur, crossover, monkey, island, ape, giant ape, jungle, creature feature, satire, giant creature, mutant, killer animal, beast, undead, creature, exploitation, iceberg, monster versus monster, monster terrorizes city, heroes ...
Time: prehistoric times, jurassic, 60s, 1960s
Place: japan, tokyo, mount fuji
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Most similar movies to King Kong vs. Godzilla

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out daikaiju, natural horror, suspenseful and psychotronic films with plots about giant monster, monster, kaiju, godzilla, danger, beast and dinosaur mostly in Sci-Fi, Action and Adventure genres. Some movies like King Kong vs. Godzilla: King Kong (2005), King Kong (1976), Godzilla: Final Wars (2004), Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964), Undersea Battleship (1963). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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King Kong (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance
Country: USA, New Zealand, Germany
Duration: 187 min.
Story: In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel to mysterious Skull Island, where they encounter Kong, a giant ape who is immediately smitten with the leading lady.
Style: sentimental, scenic, suspense, emotional, epic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, kids, manly, boys' night ...
Plot: creature, jungle, dinosaur, king kong, monster, beast, gorilla, giant ape, island, rescue, giant animal, monkey ...
Time: year 2005, 1930s, prehistoric times, jurassic, 20th century ...
Place: new york, empire state building manhattan new york city, fictional island, usa, manhattan new york city ...
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King Kong (1976)
Genre: Adventure, Horror
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 134 min.
Story: In this remake of the 1933 classic about the giant ape, an oil company expedition disturbs the peace of Kong and brings him back to New York to exploit him. Even though a woman somewhat tames Kong, he finally breaks loose and terrorizes the city, ...
Style: suspense, daikaiju, natural horror, depressing, fairy tale ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, date night
Plot: king kong, beast, monster, gorilla, giant monster, kaiju, giant ape, giant snake, world trade center manhattan new york city, island, full moon, survival ...
Time: 70s, prehistoric times, jurassic, year 1976, 20th century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, fictional island, asia, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Godzilla: Final Wars (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, Australia, China, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Evil Space Aliens called the Xilians unleashes all the Earth's monsters to lay waste to most of the world's major cities, including Tokyo, New York, Sydney, Shanghai and Paris. It is up to Godzilla and the Earth Defense Force to vanquish ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, psychotronic, captivating, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: godzilla, kaiju, evil alien, dangerous animal, deadly creature, chaos and mayhem, giant monster, chaos, supernatural, danger, save the world, chases and races ...
Time: jurassic, 60s, 2000s, 20th century, year 1964 ...
Place: new york, japan, tokyo, usa, vancouver ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The 4th film in the Godzilla franchise restores the serious tone of the original Godzilla film. A greedy developer has placed huge machines to suck dry a part of the ocean near Tokyo so he can build luxury condos. After a storm, a giant egg washes ...
Style: suspense, grindhouse, natural horror, daikaiju, classic horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kaiju, godzilla, monster, giant monster, mothra, dinosaur, greed, island, creature feature, crossover, dangerous animal, prehistoric creature ...
Time: jurassic, 60s
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Undersea Battleship (1963)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The legendary empire of the lost continent of Mu reappears to threaten the world with domination. While countries unite to resist, an isolated World War II Captain has created the greatest warship ever seen, and possibly the surface world's ...
Style: daikaiju, psychotronic, natural horror, grindhouse, suspense ...
Plot: kaiju, submarine, giant monster, godzilla, monster, dinosaur, military, sea, reptiles, prehistoric creature, fish, creature ...
Time: year 1963, 60s
Place: pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Destroy All Monsters (1968)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The 9th Godzilla film was the last made by the original Godzilla creators, and was meant to be a grand finale. Aliens have released all the giant monsters from their imprisonment on Monster Island and are using them to destroy earth's major ...
Style: daikaiju, grindhouse, natural horror, classic horror, suspense ...
Audience: kids, boys' night
Plot: kaiju, godzilla, giant monster, monster, alien invasion, mothra, monster terrorizes city, giant spider, dinosaur, alien, creature feature, moon base ...
Time: future, jurassic, 90s, year 1999
Place: japan, mount fuji, asia, france, moscow russia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Son of Godzilla (1967)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The 8th Godzilla film is aimed at an even younger audience than its predecessors. In the South Seas, scientists conducting weather experiments encounter gigantic mantises and a giant spider that are attacking Godzilla's offspring.
Style: scary, suspense, daikaiju, natural horror, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kaiju, giant monster, monster, island, godzilla, giant spider, disaster, weather, weather manipulation, killer animal, heroes, danger ...
Time: year 1967, jurassic, 60s, 20th century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster (1966)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The 7th film in the Godzilla series. After being caught in a storm in the south seas, several teenagers and thief arrive on an island where natives have been enslaved by a terrorist organization. They also discover a sleeping Godzilla and decide to ...
Style: grindhouse, natural horror, daikaiju, suspense, classic horror ...
Plot: godzilla, kaiju, giant monster, monster, mothra, giant lizard, disaster, killer animal, boat, creature, sea, mutant ...
Time: jurassic, year 1966, 60s, 20th century
Place: fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In the 6th Godzilla movie, mysterious aliens from the Planet X ask earth's people to help them save their world from the dreaded Ghidorah (aka "Monster Zero") by letting them "borrow" Godzilla and Rodan. Monster mayhem ...
Style: grindhouse, daikaiju, natural horror, suspense, classic horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kaiju, godzilla, giant monster, alien invasion, monster, alien, ufo, crossover, evil alien, distopia, spacesuit, killer animal ...
Time: jurassic, 60s
Place: japan, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
King Kong Escapes (1967)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: King Kong is brought in by an evil genius to dig for precious gems in a mine when the robot Mechani-Kong is unable to do the task. This leads to the machine and the real Kong engaging in a tremendous battle that threatens to level Japan.
Style: daikaiju, grindhouse, natural horror, suspense, classic horror ...
Plot: kaiju, giant monster, godzilla, mad scientist, king kong, monster, ape, dinosaur, giant robot, giant ape, monkey, reptiles ...
Time: year 1967, jurassic, 60s
Place: new york, japan, asia, usa, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Dr. Shiragami combines the DNA of roses with some extracted from Godzilla's cells. He names his creation "Biollante".
Style: natural horror, psychotronic, daikaiju, fast, serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: kaiju, godzilla, giant monster, monster, psychic, creature, reptiles, dinosaur, mitsubishi, mutant, killer animal, beast ...
Time: jurassic, 80s
Place: japan, asia, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Godzilla 1985 (1985)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Originally released in Japan as "The Return of Godzilla" in 1984, this is the heavily re-edited, re-titled "Godzilla 1985". Adding in new footage of Raymond Burr, this 16th Godzilla film ignores all previous sequels and serves ...
Style: daikaiju, natural horror, cult classic, fast, serious ...
Plot: monster, godzilla, kaiju, giant monster, disaster, island, mutant, dinosaur, scientist, exploitation, giant creature, creature ...
Time: jurassic, 80s
Place: japan, tokyo, asia, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Godzilla and Mothra: The Battle for Earth (1992)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The Earth is headed for disaster and when an archeological research team visits Infant Island to find out why, they discover two tiny women who reveal that the Earth is fighting back for all the harm humans have done here and sends out the evil ...
Style: daikaiju, natural horror, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: godzilla, giant monster, kaiju, monster, mothra, archaeologist, creature, reptiles, crossover, beast, dinosaur, killer animal ...
Time: jurassic, 90s
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The 5th film in the original Godzilla franchise marked a turning point in the series. Godzilla, Rodan and Mothra must put aside their quarrelsome ways to become allies and defend earth from 3 headed Dragon King Ghidorah.
Style: semi serious, suspenseful, stylized, tense, natural horror ...
Plot: giant monster, kaiju, dragon, godzilla, monster, mothra, rescue, battles, rivalry, danger, chaos, chaos and mayhem ...
Time: jurassic, 60s
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Three ancient guardian beasts awaken to protect Japan against Godzilla.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: godzilla, monster, beast, kaiju, giant monster, dinosaur, mothra, dragon, chaos, heroic mission, disaster, save the world ...
Time: year 2001, jurassic, 2000s
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The War of the Gargantuas (1966)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story: An experimental lab animal called a gargantua escapes from his captors and is suspected to be the creature that is killing people all over the countryside. But when the gargantua from the lab appears at the same time as the evil gargantua, the two ...
Style: daikaiju, natural horror, prehistoric, grindhouse, classic horror ...
Plot: godzilla, frankenstein, kaiju, giant monster, airport, giant creature, creature feature, underground, occult, post apocalyptic, 666, prehistoric man ...
Time: year 1966, 60s
Place: asia, japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Godzilla vs. Destoroyah (1995)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The aftermath of the Oxygen Destroyer brings forth Destoroyah, a beast intent on killing Godzilla, who is on the verge of a nuclear meltdown.
Style: natural horror, daikaiju, dark, depressing, serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: godzilla, kaiju, giant monster, monster, killer animal, mutant, disaster, creature, giant creature, reptiles, prehistoric creature, phenomenon ...
Time: jurassic, 90s
Place: japan, asia, tokyo, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
All Monsters Attack (1969)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 69 min.
Story: A bullied schoolboy dreams of traveling to Monster Island, where he befriends Godzilla's son, who is also having bully troubles.
Style: daikaiju, suspense, natural horror, classic horror, suspenseful ...
Audience: kids, boys' night, family outing
Plot: godzilla, monster, giant monster, kaiju, bully, giant snake, youth, giant spider, children, loneliness, bank robber, beast ...
Time: year 1969, jurassic, 60s
Place: fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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War of the Monsters (1966)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story: After a treacherous expedition to retrieve a giant opal, disaster strikes as the opal reveals itself to be an egg which spawns Barugon, demon dog from Hell! Armed with a deadly tongue and cold beams, Barugon wreaks havoc on Japan. Gamera comes to ...
Style: daikaiju, suspense, cult classic, classic horror, grindhouse ...
Plot: kaiju, giant monster, monster, gamera, mutant, dam, killer animal, dinosaur, reptiles, prehistoric creature, mothra, turtle ...
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Forty-two years after her first visit in Tokyo, Mothra returns to warn mankind that they must return Mechagodzilla, along with Godzilla's bones, to the sea, for the dead must not be disturbed. If not, dire consequences will follow. However, ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, serious, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: godzilla, monster, giant monster, kaiju, save the world, deadly creature, survival, escapades, good versus evil, danger, disorder, chaos ...
Time: jurassic, 2000s
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 81 min.
Story: In his 13th film, Godzilla takes a supporting role to the far more prominently featured Jet Jaguar, an Ultra-Man like robot. Aliens take control of Earth's monsters and begin using them to destroy the human race. Jet Jaguar decides to stop the ...
Style: daikaiju, natural horror, classic horror, fast, semi serious ...
Plot: kaiju, godzilla, giant monster, robot, monster, cyclops, lost civilization, dinosaur, creature, giant robot, kidnapping, superman ...
Time: jurassic, 70s
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Rebirth of Mothra (1996)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A new Mothra takes to the air and must battle Death Ghidora to save humanity.
Style: daikaiju, scary, exciting, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kaiju, giant monster, mothra, godzilla, monster, good versus evil, reptiles, prehistoric creature, giant creature, youth, beast, dinosaur ...
Time: 90s, 60s
Place: japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Godzilla's 12th film. After a accepting a job at a monster-themed park, a man learns his new employers are actually aliens who plan to use Ghidorah and Gigan to destroy earth. Godzilla and Anguirus must battle them to defend earth.
Style: daikaiju, natural horror, classic horror, gothic horror, cult classic ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: kaiju, godzilla, monster, alien invasion, cyclops, giant monster, good versus evil, dinosaur, killer animal, extraterrestrial, reptiles, hippie ...
Time: jurassic, year 1972, 70s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Frankenstein Conquers the World (1965)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: During WWII, a human heart taken from Dr. Frankenstein's lab and is kept in Japan where it gets exposed to the radiation of the bombing of Hiroshima. The heart grows in size, mutates and eventually becomes an indestuctable humanoid. Later, a ...
Style: scary, exciting, serious, suspenseful, daikaiju ...
Plot: frankenstein, giant monster, godzilla, world war two, scientist, false accusation, kaiju, mutant, rescue, deadly creature, supernatural, experiment gone awry ...
Time: year 1945, 1940s, 60s
Place: japan, germany, hiroshima japan, tokyo, asia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Kong: Skull Island (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, China
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Explore the mysterious and dangerous home of the king of the apes as a team of explorers ventures deep inside the treacherous, primordial island.
Style: exciting, suspense, intense, scenic, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, family friendly
Plot: monster, giant monster, creature, king kong, giant animal, island, survival, giant creature, jungle, chase, expedition, monster versus monster ...
Time: 70s, 1940s, year 2017, 2010s, year 1973 ...
Place: vietnam, fictional island, pacific ocean, washington d.c., thailand ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Godzilla vs. Space Godzilla (1994)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: When Mothra went into outer space to stop a meteor from reaching Earth, she accidentally took with cells from Godzilla and remaining cells from Biollante that inhabited our atmosphere. The combined cells went through a black hole and created a new ...
Style: natural horror, grindhouse, daikaiju, semi serious, suspenseful
Plot: godzilla, kaiju, giant monster, monster, mothra, extraterrestrial, mutant, dinosaur, killer animal, beast, prehistoric creature, reptiles ...
Time: jurassic, 90s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Godzilla 2000 (1999)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Godzilla saves Tokyo from a flying saucer that transforms into the beast Orga.
Style: exciting, stylized, suspense, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, kids
Plot: godzilla, monster, kaiju, giant monster, alien invasion, transformation, fight scenes, redemption, technology, deadly creature, anti hero, heroic mission ...
Time: 2000s, jurassic
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Godzilla comes to the rescue when an alien race rebuilds Mechagodzilla to destroy Earth's cities. A traitorous scientist gives them a second weapon: Titanosaurus.
Style: daikaiju, natural horror, fast, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: kaiju, godzilla, giant monster, monster, robot, alien invasion, evil alien, androids and robots, space and aliens, cyborgs, dinosaur, reptiles ...
Time: year 1975, jurassic, 70s
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Godzilla vs. Megaguirus (2000)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Godzilla returns to terrorize Japan! This time, however, Japan has two new weapons to defend themselves. The Gryphon, a high-tech ship, and the Dimension Tide, a device that creates artificial black holes! During a test of the Dimension Tide, eggs ...
Style: semi serious, suspenseful, suspense, natural horror, daikaiju ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: godzilla, kaiju, giant monster, save the world, space and aliens, survival, supernatural, disorder, chaos, imaginary, escapades, dangerous animal ...
Time: jurassic, 90s, 1950s, year 1954
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Varan the Unbelievable (1962)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story: In an effort to find an economic means of purifying salt water, a joint U.S.-Japanese military command is set up on an isolated Japanese island where an unusual salt water lake is situated. However, their purifying experiments arouse the prehistoric ...
Style: daikaiju, classic horror, natural horror, psychotronic, independent film ...
Plot: giant monster, kaiju, monster, godzilla, dinosaur, beast, monster terrorizes city, giant, death of protagonist, lake, loss of brother, animal horror
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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